Video: Impeachment nuts scream at Pelosi at book tour appearance

posted at 8:53 pm on August 14, 2008 by Allahpundit

There’s nothing more fun than when the Democratic leadership meets its base. The audio’s spotty so here’s a transcript of the protester’s calm, carefully considered charge:

“Who gave you the right to take the constitution and shove it down the toilet? Who gave you the right to take impeachment off the table? Nobody told them to do this,” Thottam shouted at Pelosi moments before Secret Service agents removed him from the packed auditorium and turned him over to officers with the Los Angeles Police Department. “One million Iraqis are dead. Five thousand Americans are dead. You have destroyed the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments.”

Color me surprised: He doesn’t sound like a guy who’d miss the Second. Pelosi’s peevish reply, tragically not captured on the video: “I have complete comfort with the frustration. I’m from the streets.” Yes, really. I never know how much to sympathize with Democratic pols confronted by the dregs of nutroots America hollering for a pullout from Iraq before the situation can improve any further, but if you find yourself identifying with her, revisit the video of Paul Kanjorski describing their cynical plan to get elected on the promise that they’d stop the war knowing full well that they couldn’t. They raised these cretins’ expectations knowing they couldn’t meet them; now they have to deal with the disappointment. Should be a fun convention.

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Picture this x100 at the convention. What do you do when you’re a nutty ol’ dude who really, really misses Jerry Garcia, and you can’t even get massively-unpopular Congress to turn the U.S. into your own personal commune?

Did she really say that the republicans were keeping her from having a vote on the war? Is she psychotic or does she really think Americans are that stupid? Must be the second because all democrats can’t be psychotic.

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“I take an oath of office to uphold the constitution of the United States. Don’t tell me I don’t do that,” she snapped. “Why don’t you go picket the Republicans in Congress that will not allow us to have a vote on the war?”

As much disdain I have for that woman….Mizzzzz Pelosi, I can’t stand these tools who interrupt someone while they are speaking like that. Be it troofers, impeachahollics, various hippy-types…you never see conservative Republicans do it….and if I did, I’d give them crud for it too.

It seems to me, Democrat activists can be divided into three basic groups: socialist-authoritarian wannabees (the smart group), wild-eyed lunatics divorced from reality (the might’ve-been-smart-before-they-went-nuts group), and finally, the simple-minded knee-jerk populists (the never-were-and-never-will-be-smart group.) This last group being by far the most common.

My wife does event management and was working with an environmental group a couple of years ago. One of the attendees at an early planning meeting (just a hanger-on… nothing to do with the event) worked at a local preserve here in S. Florida and he cornered my wife to discuss the event. She asked if he was volunteering. His reply was “I can’t… after the election, we are all going to be very busy working on the impeachment of Bush and Cheney”. He was wearing his cute little bush hat with khaki shorts and shirt and she said he reminded her of Jack Nicholson sticking his head through a door shouting “Here’s Johnny!”.

I’m actually looking forward to the Mother Sheehan race against Pelosi for her seat. Now THAT will be a circus!!!

Not so much. Pelosi hasn’t so much as bothered to show up for a debate in her home district for 20 years; I see no reason why she’d start now. She regularly wins with about 80% of the vote; the remaining 20% is split between the Republican candidate and whoever’s running to Nancy’s left.

Even if Sheehan takes all of the Green vote and the far-left fringe, she’ll at best get 25-30%. She’s out of fashion; remember her book signing? Add another 10% for the token Republican candidate, and Nancy may drop to a 60% winning vote count, and that’s if she never even acknowledges her opponents between now and November.

“Why don’t you go picket the Republicans in Congress that will not allow us to have a vote on the war? – Pelosi”

Isn’t that her job as Speaker of the House? To call a vote? The Speaker of the House can not call a vote because the Republicans won’t let her?

After the Speaker is elected, he or she, along with an advising committee, is responsible for appointing Committee Chairs and assigning Members of the House to their respective committees that they will serve in during their term. When the House is in session, the Speaker is in charge of upholding the rules of the House, calling bills up for discussion and/or a vote, recognizing Members who wish to speak on a bill either from the House Well or to ask a question from their seat, and bring order to the House.

Yes. But they do count all the deaths from Saddam’s former henchmen(people that the former henchmen killed, not Bush) and deaths from terrorists/insurgents(people killed by the terrorists, you know, the same people we were trying to stop) … AND the bodies of the terrorists/insurgents that we killed who deserved to die because they were the bad guys – as their ‘Bush death totals’.

Why don’t you go picket the Republicans in Congress that will not allow us to have a vote on the war?

They have had votes on the war. And both Republicans and Democrats have continually voted to continue funding. They never should have stopped teaching civics. With the poor fund of knowledge available to most people almost anything you say makes sense (as long as there is an implication that Bush is stupid and evil).

As Speaker of the House, she’s next in line if something happens to the occupant of the Oval Office and the Veep. Presumably that’s the reason for Secret Service protection – but who protects the Republic from Madam Speaker? Two years, and they haven’t done much to balance the budget, or solve the economic and energy problems. Nothing to show for all her work. Thank goodness she doesn’t represent my district.